A small soldier of the frontier army in the late Ming Dynasty

Chapter 275 Breakout
Chongzhen 11 December [-]th.

There was no sunshine today, and the wind was strong.Braving the biting cold wind, Sergeant Xuan Da came out to clean up the battlefield early in the morning. Although there were many corpses of the Qing army scattered on the ground, everyone did not feel the slightest joy.Not to mention the heavy casualties of the brothers in the army, especially the death of Duchen Lu, where the Xuan army will go, even the superiors are at a loss, not to mention the ordinary soldiers.

Everyone just collected the corpses blindly, collected the weapons and flags on the ground, and there was no movement in the Qing army camp in the distance, and there were very few sentinels scattered outside.

Each battalion was responsible for cleaning up their own positions. In the Shunxiang Army's position, Xu Yue'e's slave-killing army also assisted in cleaning up. These horse thieves were used to killing and setting fires.These days, he also fought a few battles with the Qing army, but after seeing the situation of the Shunxiang army on the battlefield, he realized that his previous battles were really insignificant.

The strong smell of blood has not gone away. Looking at the dry corpses of the Qing army everywhere, there are scattered limbs everywhere, and the front of several earthen walls and trenches seems to be soaked in blood. They couldn't help but exclaim: "The real man... "

"These officers and soldiers are really men."

"Haven't you heard? The leader of these officers and soldiers is the guerrilla general Wang Dou who was hailed by the Emperor Ming as the champion of the three armies. Talking about the ability to kill the Tartars is not a lie."

"I, Wang Laowu, consider myself brave and brave. Compared with these military masters, I am like a grandson."

"I didn't understand why the head of the family came to help the dog officers and soldiers before, but now I understand, this time, it's time to come."

"Yeah, it's worth it..."

Amidst the horse thieves' whispers and awe-inspiring eyes, the Shun Township soldiers still tidied up silently.They collected the weapons and flags scattered on the ground, piled up the corpses of the Qing army, stripped off their armor, and chopped off their heads.

Groups of people gathered around the pile of corpses and beheaded them. Long Er was sitting on a naked and headless corpse of a Qing soldier, beheading his head with a sharp ax in his hand, when he suddenly noticed a person standing beside him.He turned around and saw that it was Yu Maoer, the servant of the Supervising Biaoying Camp. He tied his hands and stared blankly at Long Er's movements.

"It's Brother Yu."

Long Er doesn't talk much on weekdays, but he is still very warm to his acquaintances.Although the two are from different military camps and have different origins, one is from Shanxi and the other is from Liaodong.But after Long Er hugged Yu Mao'er yesterday, he took him as his own.

"Brother, why are you standing? Sit."

Looking around, there was no stool, so Long Er dragged a headless corpse of a Qing army over: "Let's get down."

Yu Mao'er sat down, Long Er took out his precious pipe and lit it: "Have a sip?"

"Why do you have the nerve to smoke yours? Let's use mine."

Yu Mao'er took out her own long tobacco rod, and after a while, the two exchanged with each other, each sitting on a dead body, beheading and chattering with a pipe.

Long Er: "Brother Yu, the old governor has gone, what are your plans?"

Yu Mao'er stopped for a long time and said blankly, "Bie Duzi...I really don't know, the brothers in the Supervising Biaoying now have their own plans, Brother Chen died again, I don't know who to go with..."

Long Er enthusiastically said: "Come to the Shun Township Army, with your skills, I, Long Er, will recommend you to Mr. Wen Bai, and you will not accept him for a night."

Yu Mao'er said: "...that's fine, I'll go to Bao'an Prefecture to look for you after the Duchen's affairs are settled."

"That's it."

Wang Dou stood quietly in the cold wind, motionless, and behind him, the generals also stood motionless.Not far behind Wang Dou, Xu Yue'e stood silently as well. The cold wind blew her hair and bulged her cape and cloak, making a rustling sound.

After an unknown amount of time, Chi Dacheng, the governor of the town, came over and reported to Wang Dou: "General, a total of 150 slave heads were counted, 270 two pairs of armor were seized, and 540 taels of silver were seized. In addition, the banner of the slave thief's sword and gun was seized..."

Wang Dou listened quietly to Chi Dacheng's report, including yesterday's and the results of the previous few days, that is the number of heads of the Qing army captured in Julu above, most of them were armored soldiers of the Qing army.The armor on them became Wang Dou's spoils of war.Calculated in this way, since Wang Dou went to battle, he has seized more than 7000 pairs of armor from the Qing army from the capital to Dingzhou to Julu.The number of beheadings exceeded five thousand.

The soldiers of the Qing army generally had the habit of hiding silver taels privately. After they were captured in various places in Ming Dynasty, each of them hid at least a dozen or 20 taels of silver privately.

Wang Dou nodded and said, "Miss Xu, I'm grateful that you lead the army to rescue me. I'll give you five hundred sets of armor, five thousand taels of silver, one thousand sets of bows and arrows, and one thousand sets of knives and guns."

Xu Yue'e bowed deeply to Wang Dou: "Yue'e thanked the general."

……

That day, the Xuan army was resting and reorganizing. After the reorganization, Wang Dou had two thousand commanders, and only one of them was fully staffed.Battalion soldiers, artillery, and cavalry are not recruited at night, and the shortage is also serious, and they are also reorganized.

The general Zhong Tiaoyang of the supply camp was seriously injured, and Chi Dacheng, the governor of Wang Douling Town, took charge of the supply team and took care of the wounded together with the medical officer Wang Tianxue.Xie Yike, a general of the Chinese army, was seriously injured, Wang Dou ordered Wen Daxing to lead the rest of the night, and temporarily acted as the guard of the Chinese army.Gao Xun, Li Guangheng, and the sergeants under his command were also accompanied by the Central Military Headquarters after they were reorganized.

Xuanfu General Zhang Yan's subordinates all joined Yang Guozhu's main barracks that day.Within a day, the Qing army camp in the distance remained silent. It seemed that, as Wang Dou said, they had suffered heavy casualties and were unable to attack, so breaking out was a good opportunity.

"For the two military sects, from Julu to Longping for eighty miles, we only need to cross the Luhu River. In addition to the official road, there are many rivers and field canals on all sides. It is not easy for slaves to chase and besiege. Our army will be safe. From Longping to the west Tangshan, then we will go along the water of the residence to Lincheng, then head north, and then enter the mountainous area of ​​Zanhuang County, among the vast mountains, our army can take a leisurely rest."

"The most worrying thing is the sixty miles from the west of Julu to the Luhu River. Our military needs to strictly guard the morale of the army. Don't panic, let alone collapse, otherwise the consequences will be disastrous."

In Yang Guozhu's Chinese army tent, Wang Dou suggested this when discussing the matter of breaking out of the siege.

Both Yang Guozhu and Hu Dawei are veterans, so they naturally understood this truth, everyone discussed in detail, and finally decided to use Wang Dou's Shunxiang Army and Xu Yue'e's Slave Killing Army as the rear.Hu Dawei was in the front army, Yang Guozhu was in the middle army, hundreds of chariots were with the middle army, and there were also many horses and horses, also carrying grain, grass and wounded.All the armies responded back and forth, and if they encountered the enemy in the wild, the whole army would immediately join together and form a car battalion.Even if you walk slowly, you must take every step steadily.

Finally, Yang Guozhu said: "Tonight we will make dinner at midnight, and we will set off at dawn tomorrow morning."

……

Thousands of people in Xuanda's army died in battle. Except for some important officers, the remains of these thousands of people could not be transported back to their hometowns, and no firewood could be found for cremation.Several huge pits were dug in the second earth wall, and thousands of Xuan Dajun who died in battle were all buried in the pits.

The weather was cloudy and cold. In front of the high tombs, the whole army stood in silence, and the gunmen of the Shun Township Army blew their guns.

Amidst the sound of firecrackers, a low-pitched military song sounded, echoing over the river.

"Fuck Wu Ge, wear rhinoceros armor. The car is wrong, and the short soldiers meet..."

"When the sun is covered by the banners, the enemy is like a cloud. When the arrows cross and fall, the earth fights for the first."

"The weather is fierce, and the spirit is angry. Severely kill, abandon the wilderness..."

The armies all over the Ming Dynasty generally used Qu Yuan's "National Memorial" as their military song, and everyone in the Shun Township Army also sang this song.During the singing, everyone broke down in tears.Zhong Xiancai burst into tears, Li Guangheng also burst into tears when he thought of Han Zhong's death in battle.

Seeing thousands of people crying in unison, Xu Yue'e's slave-killing army was all moved, and sighed, Xu Yue'e was also silent.

Wang Dou no longer shed tears, he said silently in his heart: "Brothers, let's go!"

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fourteenth.

At dawn, all the camp tents have been collected and placed on the carts, mules and horses, and all the wounded who cannot walk are also placed in the carts.The remains of Lu Xiangsheng, Han Zhong, Yang Tong and others were also transported in special carts.The surroundings of Lu Xiangsheng's chariot and horses were even guarded by the remaining sergeants from the Supervising Biao Battalion.

Thousands of people in the whole army were wearing armor and neatly dressed. They only waited for an order to break through and set off.

In front of the whole army, Yang Guozhu, Hu Dawei, and Wang Dou stood in front. Yang Guozhu encouraged the army. The old general said in a stern voice: "The governor is dead, and there is no need for us to stay here. Beside us are slaves." Tens of thousands of troops, if you want to return to your hometown alive, you must keep the march in order and don't panic. As long as you cross the land and water, we can survive. During the march, the troops must not make noise or leave without authorization. If there is any violation, Behead immediately!"

Everyone roared like thunder: "Please follow the order of the military gate."

"Breakout, breakout, breakout!"

"Back home, back home, back home..."

Thousands of people raised their weapons and roared in unison.

Looking at the thousands of people who shouted, Wang Dou, Yang Guozhu, and Hu Dawei looked at each other with satisfaction, showing that the military spirit is available.

"Master, let's go."

Wang Dou came to Lu Xiangsheng's chariot and horse, took a deep look at Lu Xiangsheng's body, then looked at Yang Guozhu, and they nodded.

Yang Guozhu shouted: "Let's go."

Hu Dawei's former army took a step ahead, passed the Haoshui Bridge, and headed for the opposite bank.Then came the Chinese army led by Yang Guozhu, densely packed with vehicles and artillery, also passing through the Haoshui Bridge.In the end, Wang Dou's Shunxiang Army was adjourned.The front army, the middle army, and the rear army marched in an orderly manner. It didn't take long for the entire camp on the right bank of the Haoshui Bridge to be empty, just like the intense fighting these days was just a deep dream.

On the left bank of the Haoshui Bridge, along the upper and lower reaches of the river, there are some Qing army camps. It seems that there are not many camps here for the sake of encircling the three squares, and there is still a two-mile-wide bridge in the middle of the bridge. The whole army quietly passed through the open space.

It seems that the Ming army broke through the encirclement unexpectedly, and set off at the dawn of the day.It wasn't until Hu Dawei's former army passed by that the Qing army camps on both sides woke up. Immediately their horns sounded, and some sentry cavalry forced out from the camp.

Xuan Dajun was in a commotion, and Yang Guozhu immediately sent an order: "Anyone who dares to flee in a panic, beheaded!"

He also ordered Guo Yingxian, a general of the Chinese army, to lead some of his servants to meet him, and Hu Dawei did the same.Those Qing soldiers didn't have many sentinels, so they dared to surround them from a distance.And more and more Qing soldiers in the camps on both sides were alarmed and came out of the camp one after another.

At this time, Wang Dou's army also crossed the bridge. Seeing that there were not many Qing soldiers on the left bank, they were relieved.It takes at least half an hour for the cavalry to form a charge formation.And there is no size of the number of people, it is a dish in front of the strict infantry.

As long as most of the Qing army on the right bank did not catch up, it was only a matter of time before they escaped from this place.

The Qing soldiers on the left bank also saw this, and quickly passed on their horses to the camps of Dorgon, Yuetuo and others.

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Old White Bull:
There is another chapter tonight.

In a few days it will be the Lunar New Year, I wish you all a happy new year.

(End of this chapter)